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foliage, pungent to the taste and very aromatic. Like 

 many other high mountaineers they are woolly and require 

 a warm sunny place, high up and well drained, in 

 limestone and coarse loam. Speaking generally the 

 treatment suggested for Leontopodium will answer. A. 

 glacialis is perhaps best worth growing, the others being 

 somewhat weedy, though the silver gray foliage of all is 

 charming, 



Jl. mutellina (PI. LIV). Strongly aromatic; silky 

 silver-grey, the leaves very deeply-partite into narrow, 

 lanceolate divisions ; flowers yellowish, in a less than 

 20-headed, erect, oblong capitule, forming as a whole a 

 very loose and straggling raceme. Glacier moraines 

 (1800-2200 m.). July-August. 



A. spicata. Leaves less deeply cut, more silvery grey; 

 flowers (12-1 5) in more rounded heads; perfume less 

 acrid and more resinous; particularly distinguished by the 

 arrangement or capitules in narrow spikes, bracteate to 

 the top. The is the true Alpine Genipi, from which the 

 celebrated liqueur of the Valdotains in made. 



Jl. glacialis (PI. LIV). Forms the tufts of fine, 

 silvery foliage, which spread in broad carpets over the dry 

 slopes of the Pennines, and are covered in July-August 

 with beautiful golden-yellow spikes. Leaves very finely 

 partite, silky, silvered ; stems 4-6 in., erect, with 

 compact, terminal corymbose inflorescence of beautiful 

 yellow. 



These three Wormwoods are in great request among 

 the natives of the Alps, at Chamonix, in the valley of 

 Aosta and the Grisons, where the refined and stomachic 

 liqueur is distilled from them, which is called variously 

 Genepi, Genipi, Ginepi, or in the Engadine Iva. Report 

 says that they enter into the composition of Chartreuse. 

 They are also a energetic reagents. In case of catching 



